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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Sunday, February 08, 2015

The television news world rocks right now with the news of
possible fabrication or at least exaggeration in the news reporting of NBC
Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Mr.
Williams apparently had maintained he was in a helicopter that was hit by enemy
fire in Iraq in 2003, when he was in a trailing chopper. There are questions about his reporting of
involvement with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Mr. Williams has voluntarily stepped down temporarily from
his position as anchor, and Lester Holt (Dateline) will take over Feb. 9. Mr. Williams’s statement indicated his
absence would last a few days, maybe a week.
Some observers indicate that he could be compelled to resign as NBC
investigates.

Some veterans checked Mr. Williams’s statement and brought
it to light.

NBCNews, which has not made the story as conspicuous as
other news channels, has a statement on its own site here.

Most big time “real” journalists have “paid their dues” with
conflict reporting, which is inherently hazardous, especially now. Anderson Cooper spent several years reporting
from developing countries as a young man.
But there is something about stepping on the turf of servicemembers who
make real sacrifices and take real risks.
It tracks back eventually to the new debate on the “free rider” moral
problem (not “easy rider”).

There is an inverse problem that comes up indirectly in this
discussion, “amateur journalism”, which supplements establishment journalism
with much more personalized coverage of some issues (as with me and “don’t ask
don’t tell”). But it might provide a
novel issue of attracting hostility, a process that could become another big
issue suddenly.

I was employed by NBC as a computer programmer in the mainframe area from 1974-1977 when I was living in Manhattan myself and worked in the RCA Building Center on the 49th Street side, facing South, on the 14th Floor.

Two of the pictures here are from the NBC Washington (NBC4) health fair on January 10.

Update: Feb. 9

Stars and Stripes has published Brian Williams's Feb. 4 interviewhere.

Update: Feb. 10

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay, after a meeting in an NBC Executive's personal Manhattan apartment (and that's bizarre), New York Times story here. The announcement came out today right after NBC Nightly News aired.

There is a general comment that people are distrustful of the major networks, and I remember a "trick" on New Year's Night, 1976, who talked about "the abuse of the media".

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